Description

A quiz is a form of game or sport of themindin which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt toanswerquestions correctly. In some countries, a quiz is also abriefassessment used in education and similar fields to measuregrowthin knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.

Quizzes are usually scored in points and many quizzesaredesigned to determine a winner from a group of participants-usually the participant with the highest score.

Quizzes may be held on a variety of subjects (generalknowledge,'pot luck') or subject-specific. The format of the quizcan alsovary widely. Popularly known competition quizzesinclude

Pub quizzes
Quiz bowl
in Australia:
Music for the Mission
in Belgium:
Belgian Style Quizzing
in Canada:
Reach for the Top
in India:
see Quizzing in India, for a discussion on the specific evolutionofthe quizzing culture in India
in Lithuania:
Protmušis
in the United Kingdom:
British Quizzing Championships, annual national tournament inGreatBritain
University Challenge (televised)
Schools' Challenge
in the United States:
College Bowl
National Academic Quiz Tournaments
Academic Competition Federation
Individual quiz tournaments
in multiple countries:
World Quizzing Championships
European Quizzing Championships
in the United Kingdom:
Mastermind (televised)
Bait Bazi poetic quiz in Pakistan
Board games:
Trivial Pursuit
Bezzerwizzer
TV quizzes, also called quiz shows (game shows TV/radio)
Quiz Call phone-in television show
Jeopardy!
Who Wants to be a Millionaire
The Weakest Link
BBC's MasterMind
Bait Bazi poetic quiz
Bamboozle!, a teletext quiz on UK TV
Online quiz
Blog Quiz
See also:

Quiz league
Quiz machine

The largest quiz, according to Guinness, was the "Quiz forLife",held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on 11December2010 with 2,280 participants. The winning team Café DeKastaar fromLeuven was composed of Marnix Baes, Erik Derycke, EricHemelaers,Bart Permentier and Tom Trogh.

In an educational context, a quiz is usually a form of astudentassessment, but often has fewer questions of lesserdifficulty andrequires less time for completion than a test.[3]This use istypically found in the US, Canada, and some colleges inIndia. Forinstance, in a mathematics classroom, a quiz maycheckcomprehension of a type of mathematical exercise. A "pop quiz"is aquiz that students are given no time to prepare for; theyaresimply surprised with it in class.

Additionally, a personality quiz may be a seriesofmultiple-choice questions about the respondent without rightorwrong answers. The responses to these questions aretalliedaccording to a key, and the result purports to reveal somequalityof the respondent. This kind of "quiz" was originallypopularizedby women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan. They havesince becomecommon on the Internet, where the result page typicallyincludescode which can be added to a blog entry to publicize theresult.These postings are common on LiveJournal.

There are also many online quizzes. Many webmasters havequizsections on their websites and forums; for instance, phpBB2 hasoneMOD (modification) which allows users to submit quizzes, calledtheUltimate Quiz MOD.[4]

The results of online quizzes are generally to be takenlightly,as they do not often reflect the true personality orrelationship.They are also rarely psychometrically valid. However,they mayoccasion reflection on the subject of the quiz and provideaspringboard for a person to explore his or her emotions,beliefs,or actions.

Test (student assessment)